A girl is speeding down a path on her new scooter. Although her sensory systems are rapidly recording a wide variety of stimulus changes, she still sees the world as stable and unchanging. This is referred to as
a. stimulus-driven capture.
b. relative motion parallax.
c. perceptual constancy.
d. the phi phenomenon.
Answer: c. perceptual constancy.
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